Our Three Little Pigs Building Site

We all love the story 'The Three Little Pigs' in Junior Infants. The story is the basis of our theme over the past couple of weeks and we have set up a Three Little Pigs Building Site in the role play area and in small world play. When in role we explored the different materials that would be suitable for building a house - we decided that bricks, stone and cement make the best houses in Ireland because of our rainy, windy weather.

We sang the rhymes 'London Bridge' and 'This is the Way We Lay the Bricks' to help us think about materials and building. Click here for the rhymes.

We also took on different roles on a building site. There are lots of jobs on a building site, like the building site in Grangegorman. We could think of builders, managers, architects, engineers, and drivers for all the different vehicles. 

In the sand area we built houses, castles and skyscrapers and we noticed that we needed water to make the sand hold its shape.

Chinese New Year

We celebrated Chinese New Year in class this week and we learned that we are now in the year of the monkey. We found out the year we were born in - most of us were born in the year of the tiger or the year of the rabbit.
We made beautiful Chinese lanterns to celebrate!